

$1,848.00 Net Profit from 200 Stark Peach Trees 
“T have a young orchard of 200 trees— 
some 3 years old and some 4 years old. 
They bore a tremendous crop this year. I 
made a net profit of $1848.00 from my 
200 trees this year. 
“Growing peaches is a hobby with me 
and a good paying hobby. I picked 
bushels and bushels of peaches that 
weighed a pound each. People were 
$21.45 Worth of Apples on 3-Year 
Stark Golden Delicious Tree 
“3 years ago we ordered three ‘Gold-Mine’ 
Orchards from you and we are now in position to 
mail out Christmas boxes with a dozen Stark 
Golden Delicious in a box. 
“We have apples that are 4 inches across them 
now. One tree has 146 apples on it and has been 
planted here 3 years and it was a hard winter and 
spring here on them.”—Mrs. Lynn McDonald, 
Barry County, Michigan. 
$24.00 Worth of Cherries from 
5-Year Stark Gold Tree 
(excerpt from Moberly, Mo. paper) 
“John L. Widner delivered 33 pounds of Stark 
Gold Sweet Cherries in Moberly which sold at 40 
cents a pound. This 33-pound delivery was part 
of the crop from one tree, as the family used about 
Stark Orchards and 
Got More Than His Money’s Worth; 
Finds Stark Trees Better Than 
Local-Grown 
Dear Mr. Stark: 
“T seldom have a chance to write a letter thanking 
acompany for their excellent products. For, in these 
days, it is seldom that you get more than what you 
pay for. 
“You stated you would send me trees that I would 
like to plant and be proud of. That, sirs, is an under 
estimation in my opinion after looking the trees 
over. The fact is, anyone would be proud of them. 
After comparing the trees for size and growth with 
trees that I bought from nurseries in this state and 
planted, some of them as far back as two years ago, 
I realize that I got more than my money’s worth 
from you. 
“Your trees will grow as good up north as trees 
bought from this locality. My friends and farmers 
around here ask, ‘How will these trees stand up in 
our climate?’ They all seem to think they will freeze 
out a lot easier than northern grown trees. As far as 
I can see, they are doing as good—even better than 
trees bought from northern nurseries.’”—John 
Yanik, Wayne Co., Mich. 
Stark Trees Added $1,200.00 
to Selling Price of Lot 
“T have five half-acre lots eleven miles 
from Chicago,”’ writes Mr. O. R. Moore. 
“My friend, Mr. Brown, who is Vice- 
President of one of the largest real estate 
firms in the city, was offered $1200.00 
MORE for one of his half-acre lots simply 
because his fruit trees, planted every 
30 feet, were loaded with all kinds of fruit— 
and these were 4-year old trees.”’ 
Stark World’s Champion Fruit Trees 
amazed at the size and quality. I did not 
have enough to meet the demand. The 
Stark Elberta Queen and Hal-Berta 
Giant were the talk of the town. 
“I also picked several bushels of 
apples from my 4-year Stark Golden 
Delicious and Starking Delicious trees.” 
—Frank R. Morris, Gibson County, 
Tenn. 

half of the crop at home. Widner estimates the 
yield from this one tree to have been about 
60 pounds. It is a 5-year tree and has borne a 
good crop the past two seasons. 
“ «This Stark Gold Cherry is hardy, a regular 
and heavy bearer and is one cherry the birds let 
me pick—some call it the ‘bird-proof cherry’, 
Mr. Widner said.’ ” 
$4.00 a Bushel for Peaches from 
3-Year Stark Trees 
“Wy Hal-Berta, J. H. Hale and Red Bird Cling 
Peach trees I bought from you 3 years ago had 
the finest peaches on them I ever saw. They 
weighed 14 ounces. I sold them for $4.00 a bushel 
and got 5c a piece for selected ones. I gathered as 
much as 14 bushels per tree. I can recommend 
Stark trees as the finest, fastest growing trees I 
ever saw.” —John W. West, Cherokee County, 
Ala. 

$4,850.00 Crop of Bur- 
bank July Elberta Peach 
W. A. May, of LaMar County, 
Texas, sold his 1948 crop of Burbank 
July Elberta Peaches from his young 
10-acre orchard for $4,850.00—$485.- 
00 per acre. Mr May recently wrote 
us: 
“Wy orchard is set out on 25 foot 
centers giving me about 69 trees to 
the acre. I have only Burbank July 
Elberta Peach Trees in my orchard 
and I must say that Stark Trees are 
second to none.” 
Ornamentals Increase Property Values 
would add $6,000.00 to the value of Mr. 
Moore’s five lots on this same basis, and 
one crop of high quality fruit often pays the 
entire cost of the trees. 
““Stark Trees Too Low Priced,”’ 
C. M. Mathis, Ky. 
“We planted the trees you sent us. We were 
very much delighted in your choice trees. The only 
criticism we have is you sell your trees too cheap, 
when you consider the high grade of trees you place 
on the market.” 
Stark Trees Helped 
Sell Old Place, 
Stark Orchard Cost 
Him $80.00—Helps 
Wants Bigger 
Stark Orchard on 
New Farm 
“*T am sure our 
home orchard on the 
place we sold helped 
to sell the place. Our 
Starking Delicious 
and Stark Golden De- 
licious apple trees and 
our Hal-Berta Giant 
peachand July Elberta 
peach trees bore a few 
fruit the second year 
after planting. I am 
more anxious to get a 
larger orchard started on 
our new 80-acre farm. 
Please rush me your 
catalog,solcan get 
started planning my 
new orchard.’’—B. L. 
Powers, Pulaski Co., 
Ark. 
Get $3,950.00 More 
for His Place Only 
6 Years Later 
“T bought about $80.00 
worth of trees from you 
about 5 or 6 years ago, 
for my small place which 
had cost me $550.00. I 
sold out for $4,500.00. 
My Stark orchard helped 
me sell the place and 
make a good profit. I 
have bought a new place 
now—and will buy again 
from you.’’—Chas. A. 
Coleman, Pike Co., 
Kentucky. 



Bought 50-Acre Farm for $2,400; 
Stark Trees Made It Sell for $20,000 
“Your catalogue makes me recall the happy 
days when I visited your nursery. From time to 
time I bought more than 600 of your most 
wonderful quality trees. 
“TI started the nearly wild 50 acres 3 miles 
from town and made a hobby of planting Stark 
orchard trees of all kinds, but mostly the Golden 
Delicious and the Red Delicious and Winesaps, 
and peaches and cherries and many others. 
“My original cost was $2,400.00 and I built a 
modern 5 room house and lived out there; kept 
up my practice as regular work, and the orchard 
as a hobby. It was your wonderful trees that 
made the farm worth the $20,000.00 for which I 
sold it a short time ago.” —A. Franklin Turner, 
M. D., Christian Co., Il. 
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